Stop up and Scoop out

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Stop up verb - To prevent passage through by filling with something.

Usage example: clear the leaves out of the rain gutters so they don't stop up the downspouts again

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Scoop out is an antonym for stop up.

Scoop out verb - Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.

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Stop up is an antonym for scoop out.

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Scoop out and Stop up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stop_up/scoop_out

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